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The opportunity you are looking for

30 postdoctoral fellowships for researchers of all nationalities, to conduct a research project at accredited centres with the Severo Ochoa or María de Maeztu excellence award, Institutos de Investigación Sanitaria Carlos III or units qualified as "excellent" by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

TIMELINE

No project or supplementary documentation may be submitted after the deadlines established in the Application for Fellowship Rules.

8 July 2019
Starting date for the submission of applications.

8 October 2019
Deadline for applications.

27 January 2020
Announcement of shortlisted candidates.

From 2 to 4 March 2020
Selection interviews in Barcelona.

18 March 2020
Publication of results of the selection process.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS REQUIREMENTS

Researchers of any nationality are eligible for the Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships programme. In order to get accepted, candidates must meet the following requirements:

Experience: They should have earned their doctoral degree two to seven years prior to the deadline of the call for applications. The date of the doctoral thesis defence will be understood as the date when the doctoral degree was obtained. In the cases of interruption of the research activity between the date of obtaining the doctoral degree and the call deadline, the candidate may request an extension of the period in which the doctoral degree must have been obtained.

Geographic mobility:
For candidates applying to Spanish centres or units: Candidates must not have resided or have carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than twelve months in the three years immediately preceding the closing date of the call. Short stays, such as holidays, will not be taken into account.

For candidates applying to Portuguese units: Candidates must not have resided or have carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Portugal for more than twelve months in the three years immediately preceding the closing date of the call. Short stays, such as holidays, will not be taken into account.

Special mobility condition could apply for the in the cases of interruption of the research activity or researchers who have spent time in the procedure for obtaining the refugee status under the Geneva Convention.

Complete applications: Only candidates whose applications meet all the requirements of the call may be accepted.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

If you are interested in applying for a Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowship, please click on the button that you will find below to create your personal account and fill in the online application form.

The call for applications opens on the date it is published and closes on 8 October 2019 at 2 p.m. (Central European Time - CET).

RESEARCH CENTRES

Postdoctoral Junior Leader - Incoming fellows must conduct their research project at a Spanish research centre that has been granted the Severo Ochoa or María de Maeztu excellence award by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (*), Institutos de Investigación Sanitaria Carlos III or Portuguese R&D units rated as "excellent" by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia de Portugal (**). Consequently, this means that they are centres and units that stand out for their scientific impact and leadership at an international level and that they actively collaborate with their social and business environment.

The research programmes carried out at these centres are first rate, highly competitive and considered to be among the best in the world in their respective scientific areas. These centres act as host organisations within the framework of the Postdoctoral Junior Leader – Incoming subprogramme and all of them have characteristics which are essential for the development and consolidation of a research career:

They have ethical protocols in accordance with the provisions of the European Commission.

They have research management offices—experts in advisory services for competitive application processes and in managing research projects .

They have knowledge transfer offices, to ensure dissemination and valuation of scientific and technological advances made.

They offer complementary activities for researchers, such as:

Opportunities for research/mobility stays.

Intersectoral and interdisciplinary activities through existing agreements with national and international research centres, companies and universities.

CERTIFICATES OF EXCELLENCE

(*) The Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universitiesgrants Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu awards to research centres and units of excellence, respectively, in any field of science. It is the highest distinction at the national level for entities that promote excellence in research. These certificates of excellence are granted by means of an annual competition among a small number of entities for a limited number of years. Once this period has passed, the entities must go through a competitive selection process again to renew their certificates.

(**) Most of the scientific research in Portugal is carried out in the R&D Units and associated laboratories, which finances and evaluates the FCT. There are currently 307 accredited R&D Units where close to 22,000 researchers work.

The research carried out in these institutions covers all scientific fields, from life sciences and health sciences to social and human sciences, as well as engineering, exact sciences, natural and environmental sciences. The institutions are evaluated regularly by the FCT.

“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 847648”.